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Ringfort - rath

Ballymeeny (Jones), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballymeeny (Jones), County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballymeeny (Jones)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
54.26787, -8.91254
SMR number
SL011-136----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rough, wettish pasture, located on a low NW–SE ridge. Raised circular area (22.6m N–S; 19.4m E–W) defined S–NW by remnants of an earthen bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.7m, at W) and elsewhere by a slight scarp. The bank/scarp coincides with a natural break of slope at NW–NE. Outside the bank at S–W there is a shallow fosse (Wth 2-2.5m, at W) with an external bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.4m, at W), truncated at W by a later field fence on a NW–SE axis. There is a hut site (SL011-136001-) on the E edge of the level interior. Immediately to S of the rath there is a subrectangular enclosure (SL011-136002-).

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 22 April 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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